Author: lfranza

I needed to make sure to mention that all reasoning goes out the window when you pee on a pregnancy test. You know that they are 99% reliable, but then when one turns positive, you think of all the things that could’ve turned it positive. Like maybe it was that iced tea I had…I never drink iced tea. Or maybe it was that benadryl I took earlier. I think I peed on 40 sticks from amazon.com and still didn’t believe them. Maybe they were crappy tests? Peter thought this was hilarious and kept calling me “pregnant…” to which I responded, “This is what you say…” He is also convinced that women would prefer to receive information via pee sticks. I think he was jealous of all the excitement ;), because he started making up other things we could find out from peeing on sticks.

Gender of a baby
Career choices
Magic 8 Ball answers
What to eat for dinner
Who peed on the carpet?

We had our first ultrasound since 6.5 weeks last week. The last time at the ultrasound, I was not very impressed. Don’t get me wrong; it was interesting, but it was nothing compared to an ultrasound at 19 weeks and 3 days. At 6.5 weeks, a baby looks like a flickering blob. Flickering is good; it means there is a heartbeat. But at 20 weeks, you see fingers, hands, arms, legs, feet, spine, a head, nose, etc.

So much more exciting! The ultrasound technician stabbed me with the ultrasound wand. Yes, I mean stabbed. Stabbed like she had a vendetta. Apparently the baby wasn’t in the position she wanted for certain measurements, so she decided to take it out on my stomach.

We did get to find out the gender, which was crazy. I never actually thought I wanted to know the gender of my kids before they were born. My parents didn’t find out, and I thought that sounded so exciting. With the 2+ months of puking, I wasn’t feeling too excited about this whole process though. Peter and I thought maybe finding out the gender would help pep me up a little.

I remember when people would ask me what I would do in the future in this scenario or that, and I always assumed I would have two kids, both boys. I didn’t necessarily want or not want boys, just assumed boys. So I was super shocked when the technician said, “Girl!” I literally said,  “What??!” Blew my mind.

We decided to tell our family later that night, so we kept it a secret at work. Although my coworker, Heather, was super awesome and put pink and blue balloons on my desk and decorated :).

Peter and I decided to make a box of boxes for our family to unwrap, so every other box was pink, blue, pink, blue, etc. Obviously in the tiniest box, we put the actual gender ultrasound in a little pink card. We videotaped our moms and my grandmom opening the boxes, and I think it was pretty cute.

My mom and dad sent us beautiful flowers at work the next day, which made everyone come into my office to make gaga noises over the pink flowers.

In other news, now Peter has to make up other names instead of Baracktopus, Cornelius Archimedes, Ebonyzer, and Spackle.